It seems like networks always growing at our facilities. New items need to be added to the network, often unplanned for because of technology updates. All of a sudden the rack that had plenty of space becomes overloaded. Recently, Tripplite came our with a novel idea, They developed a rack mount gigabit switch that is a PDU on the back side. Click here for more info: According to Tripplite at a recent meeting, this will be the first of a number of switch configurations offering a PDU option.